27) Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock I got given this book when starting my new job (hat tip Jeremy R), and I've been gradually going through it in my first few months, folding down corners of pages and taking notes when coming across a little nugget or two. It's written by Google's Head of HR… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 27: Work Rules!
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Year 3 / Book 26: Be More Pirate
26) Be More Pirate by Sam Conniff Allende It's rare for me to be reading a book by someone I know - I've known Sam from working in social enterprise for many years, first getting to know him well as one of a selected number of 'ambassadors' for the social enterprise movement a good few… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 26: Be More Pirate
Year 3 / Book 25: The Silo Effect
25) The Silo Effect by Gillian Tett The premise of this book is really fascinating. Gillian Tett is a financial journalist, but also a trained anthropologist, and in her writings about the financial crash from 2008 onwards (notably Fool's Gold), she became interested in how internal organisational cultures (and people's behaviours) had led to some… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 25: The Silo Effect
Year 3 / Book 24: Two Kinds of Truth
24) Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly When times are tough, I always reach for a comfort read - and a Harry Bosch novel by Michael Connelly feels like the reading equivalent of lighting a fire, making a cup of tea and putting on some velvet slippers. From the off here, we are in… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 24: Two Kinds of Truth
Year 3 / Book 23: Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race
23) Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge This book originated with a polemical blog post of the same title, which was so widely shared that it got extended and transformed into this book. And the book has gone on to be a best-seller, giving rise to the irony,… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 23: Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race
Year 3 / Book 22: The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
22) The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz Along with much of the rest of the world, I was a fan of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, especially the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. They combined hugely memorable lead characters in Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an excellent supporting cast,… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 22: The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
Year 3 / Book 21: The Outcast Dead
21) The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths I really enjoyed The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths when I read it last year, and so I turned to another of her novels when I was looking for some undemanding, page-turning fare. And this one delivered in the same way, with the incredibly likeable main… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 21: The Outcast Dead
Year 3 / Book 20: Civilwarland Is In Bad Decline
20) Civilwarland Is In Bad Decline by George Saunders I'm a big fan of George Saunders and, as I think I said in my review of Lincoln In The Bardo (his Booker-winning novel of 2017), I'm a particular fan of his short stories: Tenth of December and A Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil are… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 20: Civilwarland Is In Bad Decline
Year 3 / Book 19: Death at La Fenice
19) Death At La Fenice by Donna Leon Donna Leon has been an author I've circled round for a while, but for some reason in my mind I had her pegged in the Tess Gerritsen slasher / thriller type mode. A comment from my friend Sara ("a bit of light and frothy detective fun") helped… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 19: Death at La Fenice
Year 3 / Book 18: I’ll Be Gone In the Dark
18) I'll Be Gone In the Dark by Michelle McNamara This book comes loaded with authorial endorsements (the foreword is by Gillian Flynn of Gone Girl fame) but also with the tragic knowledge that Michelle McNamara died before finishing her book. This is inescapable throughout the book as her colleagues and peers have completed it… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 18: I’ll Be Gone In the Dark
Dog-eared Man: a book a week 